Result of the 82Nd Yushun Himba
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FROM: Media & Publicity Department, THE JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION (JRA) DATE: May 23, 2021 SUBJECT: RESULT OF THE 82ND YUSHUN HIMBA (JAPANESE OAKS, G1) The Japanese version of the prestigious British Oaks, the Yushun Himba was established in 1938 and contested among runners limited to home-bred three-year-old fillies. Initially called the “Hanshin Yushun Himba” and held during the fall season at Hanshin Racecourse, the race acquired its current status as the Japanese Oaks upon changing its venue to Tokyo Racecourse in 1946. The race was also shifted to the spring season, being the richest in prize money and longest in distance among the current JRA races limited to fillies/mares. The Yushun Himba opened its door to foreign-bred runners in 2003 and acquired international G1 status in 2010. While the Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas, G1, 1,600m) serves in gauging the speed potentials in the future broodmares, the Yushun Himba is a championship race in which to discover the added quality of stamina as well as speed, and winners of this race are highly rated as broodmares upon retirement to stud. Recent winners included fillies/mares that became high profile G1 winners. Last year’s winner Daring Tact (JPN, by Epiphaneia) went on to capture the Shuka Sho (G1, 2,000m) that autumn not only to become the sixth filly to capture the fillies’ Triple Crown title but the first in JRA history to do so undefeated, while 2019 victor Loves Only You (JPN, by Deep Impact) scored her second G1 title in the Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1, 2,000m) last month. The top five finishers of the Oka Sho (Apr.11) that were automatically eligible for the Oaks were: Sodashi (1st), Fine Rouge (3rd), Akaitorino Musume (4th) and Art de Vivre (5th) while the runner-up Satono Reinas (JPN, by Deep Impact) was decided to run against the boys in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1, 2,400m) instead. Runners who earned their tickets by faring well in Oaks trials were Cool Cat and Slyly, top two finishers in the Flora Stakes (G2, 2,000m, Apr.25), as well as the Sweet Pea Stakes (Listed, 1,800m, May.2) winner Tagano Passion. The field also included Stellaria, victor of the Wasurenagusa Sho (Listed, 2,000m, Apr.11), Kukuna, coming off a sixth in the Oka Sho, and Uberleben who registered a runner-up and three thirds in four graded starts. THE 82ND YUSHUN HIMBA (JAPANESE OAKS, G1) 3-year-olds, Fillies, 2,400 meters (about 12 furlongs), turf, left-handed Sunday, May 23, 2021 Tokyo Racecourse 11th Race Post Time: 15:40 Total prize money: ¥ 238,600,000 (about US$ 2,273,000 <US$1=¥105>) 3-y-o: 55 kg (about 121 lbs), 3 kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-bred born in 2018 Course Record: 2:20.6 Race Record: 2:22.8 [Loves Only You (JPN, by Deep Impact), 2019] Safety factor: 18 runners Going: Good to Firm Weather: Fine S&A Sire Owner Horse Odds Margin FP BK PP Color Dam Breeder Jockey (Fav) (L3F) Wgt (Dam’s Sire) Trainer F3 Gold Ship K. Thoroughbred Club Ruffian Uberleben (JPN) 8.9 2:24.5 1 5 9 br. Meine Theresia Big Red Farm Mirco Demuro (3) (34.4) 55.0 (Roses in May) Takahisa Tezuka Deep Impact Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., F3 Akaitorino Musume (JPN) 4.5 1 Apapane Ltd. 2 4 7 d.b. Christophe Lemaire (2) (34.4) (King Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. 55.0 Kamehameha) Sakae Kunieda F3 Kizuna Mitsuko Yasuoka Hagino Pilina (JPN) 215.4 Nose 3 4 8 br. Hagino Arc Mitsuko Yasuoka Takashi Fujikake (16) (34.3) 55.0 (Admire Moon) Tomokazu Takano F3 King Kamehameha Ryoji Yagi Tagano Passion (JPN) 51.9 1-1/4 4 2 4 b. Admire Silk Ryoji Yagi Yasunari Iwata (10) (34.2) 55.0 (Symboli Kris S) Ippo Sameshima F3 King Kamehameha Hideko Kondo Art de Vivre (JPN) 27.6 Head 5 7 15 b. Isabel Hideko Kondo Kohei Matsuyama (7) (34.5) 55.0 (Deep Impact) Teiichi Konno F3 Epiphaneia Yoshikatsu Murakami Miyabi Heidi (JPN) 399.7 3/4 6 6 12 d.b. Miyabi Kirameki Yoshikatsu Murakami Yutaka Yoshida (17) (34.3) 55.0 (Heart's Cry) Fumimasa Takahashi Kukuna (JPN) F3 31.9 Neck King Kamehameha U. Carrot Farm 7 1 1 Takeshi Yokoyama d.b. (8) (35.1) Culminar Northern Farm 55.0 (Deep Impact) Toru Kurita Kurofune Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., F3 Sodashi (JPN) 1.9 3/4 Buchiko Ltd. 8 6 11 w. Hayato Yoshida (1) (35.1) (King Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. 55.0 Kamehameha) Naosuke Sugai F3 Dream Journey U. Carrot Farm Through Seven Seas (JPN) 38.3 1/2 9 1 2 b. Mighty Slew Northern Farm Keita Tosaki (9) (34.9) 55.0 (Kurofune) Tomohito Ozeki F3 Deep Impact Noboru Iyama Purple Lady (JPN) 98.3 1/2 10 2 3 b. Melissa Okada Stud Hironobu Tanabe (12) (34.7) 55.0 (White Muzzle) Takeshi Okumura F3 Kizuna Genichi Mutsui Fine Rouge (JPN) 10.4 1 11 7 13 b. Passion Rouge Northern Racing Yuichi Fukunaga (4) (35.1) 55.0 (Boston Harbor) Tetsuya Kimura F3 Orfevre K. Hidaka Breeders Union Slyly (JPN) 174.5 Neck 12 8 17 b. Visionary Shirai Stud Farm Yukito Ishikawa (15) (35.7) 55.0 (Deep Impact) Ikuo Aizawa F3 Kizuna Shadai Race Horse Co., Ltd. Stellaria (JPN) 10.9 2-1/2 13 8 18 d.b. Pollenator Shadai Corporation Inc. Yuga Kawada (5) (36.1) 55.0 (Motivator) Takashi Saito F3 Screen Hero Silk Racing Co., Ltd. Cool Cat (JPN) 18.6 1-1/2 14 3 5 br. Mejiro Tonkinese Lake Villa Farm Yutaka Take (6) (36.6) 55.0 (Dance in the Dark) Takeshi Okumura F3 Matsurida Gogh Win Co., Ltd. Win Aglaia (JPN) 126.8 1-1/2 15 3 6 b. Win Artemis Cosmo View Farm Ryuji Wada (13) (36.3) 55.0 (Arch) Yuji Wada F3 Heart's Cry Yu Hirai Nina Dress (JPN) 59.7 9 16 8 16 b. Saratoga Yu Hirai Kota Fujioka (11) (38.1) 55.0 (Kurofune) Yasuo Tomomichi F3 Rulership Hisao Sato Stripe (JPN) 413.1 3-1/2 17 7 14 d.b. Grace Flower Hisao Sato Yoshitomi Shibata (18) (38.7) 55.0 (Daiwa Major) Kazuyuki Ogata F3 Deep Impact Teruya Yoshida Enthusiasm (JPN) 129.8 4 18 5 10 b. Zealous Cat Shadai Farm Mirai Iwata (14) (38.9) 55.0 (Storm Cat) Shogo Yasuda FP: Final Position / BK: Bracket Number / PP: Post Position / S&A: Sex & Age / Wgt: Weight (kg) / L3F: Time of Last 3 Furlongs (600m) Color: b.=bay / bl.=black / br.=brown / ch.=chestnut / d.b.=dark bay / d.ch.=dark chestnut / g.=gray / w.=white NOTE 1: No Foreign Contenders NOTE 2: Figures quoted under Odds are shown in form of decimal odds (single unit is ¥100), and Fav indicates the order of favorites. Turnover for the Race alone: ¥ 17,552,957,400 Turnover for the Day: ¥ 27,079,384,300 Attendance: 4,791 Pay-off (for ¥100) Win No.9 ¥ 890 Bracket Quinella 4-5 ¥ 1,790 Quinella 7-9 ¥ 1,880 No.9 ¥ 250 7-9 ¥ 700 Exacta 9-7 ¥ 4,690 Place No.7 ¥ 190Quinella Place 8-9 ¥ 24,940 Trio 7-8-9 ¥ 109,190 No.8 ¥ 2,820 7-8 ¥ 14,430 Trifecta 9-7-8 ¥ 532,180 Winner= 7 starts, 2 wins, 1 second, 3 thirds / Added money: ¥ 138,980,000 / Career earnings: ¥ 196,355,000 Uberleben Scores First G1 Victory in Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) Third favorite Uberleben marked her first graded win in claiming this year’s Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks), the second leg of the Triple Crown for fillies, while giving her sire Gold Ship (JPN, by Stay Gold) his first G1 title. After immediately breaking her maiden in her debut start (1,800m) last June, the filly was second to Sodashi in the following Sapporo Nisai Stakes (G3, 1,800m) and went on to mark three thirds in a row, the 2020 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (G1, 1,600m), this year’s Flower Cup (G3, 1,800m) in March and the Flora Stakes (G2, 2,000m), her most recent start. Claiming the NHK Mile Cup just two weeks earlier with Schnell Meister, trainer Takahisa Tezuka is now a proud winner of eight JRA-G1 titles while jockey Mirco Demuro marked his 33rd following his latest triumph in last year’s NHK Mile Cup with Lauda Sion. He also celebrates his second Oaks victory following his win with Loves Only You in 2019. Breaking smoothly from stall nine, Demuro kept Uberleben reserved in mid-division taking a wide route throughout and slightly advanced before the final turn. Steered further to the outside entering the straight, the Gold Ship filly launched her bid, steadily gained on the struggling favorite battling with the tiring leaders and pulled away strongly after the furlong pole while holding off Akaitorino Musume on her inside and Hagino Pilina digging in from the outside to prevail by a length. “She suffered from colic in February and has shown a slow but steady recovery. She broke smoothly today and it did worry me a bit that we were dead last in the backstretch but she responded well when the pace accelerated from the third corner and showed her tenacity in steadily advancing in the straight. She was strong pulling away and holding off the others. The added distance wasn’t a problem for her at all. I’m thrilled—it’s always wonderful to win a G1 race,” commented Mirco Demuro after the race.